In large characters, Shenyang’s citizens are encouraged to overcome difficulties, to produce “still bigger, still better, more quickly, more frugally.” This is the slogan most often seen throughout the country and can be called the slogan of 1958. Other slogans: “Work like the devil for three years to change the face of China in most of the regions,” launched by Mao Tse-tung. Another, by Liu Chao-Chi: “Several years of hard life, a thousand years of happiness.” In contrast, the slogan of 1956 was, “Make it big and quickly, do it well, do it cheaply.”

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